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AWARDS MADE IN COLLEGE TUBERCULOSIS ESSAY CONTEST Miss Laura E. Cruse of Kentucky State Industrial College won first prize, $10.00 in the tuberculosis essay contest conducted among students of Negro colleges of the state, by the Kentucky State Tuberculosis Association. The subject of the contest was: "Why I Should Know About Tuberculosis And What I Should Know." The contest of an educational nature, is to encourage Negro students, as future leaders of their communities to study the problems of health Education as it affects them and their race. The first three winning essays will be entered in the National contest where prizes of $50.00, $25.00 and five awards of honorable mention of $5.00 each are being offered. The essays were well written and covered to a large extent the problem of tuberculosis in the Negro. Judges in the contest found it hard to choose the winners. Other winners were Walter Shobe, second prize $5, George Edwards, both Kentucky State College, third prize, $3.00; Miss Lucy Lee Clements and Miss Lois Schaeffer of Louisville Municipal College won honorable mention of $1.00 each. Judges in the contest were: Dr. Robert Nurse, chairman of the Negro Health Week Committee; Dr. J. B. Bell, staff physician at Waverley Hills Tuberculosis Sanatorium and head of the Tuberculosis Clinic at 920 West Chestnut Street; Miss Luvenia Neal, health counselor, Madison Junior High School, and Miss Lorraine Robbins, secretary Negro Health Education, Louisville Tuberculosis Association.
Among the Leaders in the Mountain Section State-Wide Subscription Drive in Which a "Miss Louisville Leader" Will Be Crowned Miss Virginia Lackey Somerset, KY. Miss Sweetie Simmons Lynch, Ky. Miss Shirley Mae Love Barbourville, Ky. Mrs A. B. Patterson Lynch, Ky.
Young Glass College Grad
Edward K. Glass, son of Dr. and Mrs. J. G. Glass of Henderson, Ky., both from two of Kentucky's most prominent families, is among those who graduated from Tennessee A. and I. State College, Nashville, Tenn., Friday. Young Glass, who received a Bachelor of Science degree, is energetic and promising. He was one of the first young fellows to represent The Leader in West Kentucky. He started with 6 copies when he was 6 years old.
WHAT IS EDUCATION? ASKED BY DR. MCVEY AT COMMENCEMENT Frankfort, Ky., June 2--Speaking at the fifieth annual commencement of the [Kentucky?] State College at Frankfort[, Dr.?] Frank L. McVey, [president of?] the University of Kentucky, discussed "What is Education?" He summarized education as the power to discriminate which was built up through the growth of the individual by the process of experience. To the power to discriminate was added the taking of responsibilities, both civic and economic, as completing the educational process. Sixty-five graduates received their degrees from President R. B. Atwood of the Kentucky State College as the ceremonies were carried to every point in the well-filled Health building by loud speakers. A number of prizes and scholarships were presented during the ceremonies. Misses Leota Diggs of Detroit, Michigan, Katherine Lane of Lexington, Ovetta Taylor of Blue Diamond, and Susie Mae Wilson of Louisville received respectively the first prize J. H. Ingram medal, the A. J. Richards and Bettie H White awards for a second place tie and the third prize Mrs. W. W. Jones award for the annual college oratorical contest. Four girls and two young [men?] received prizes for the best kept rooms in the three dormitories for the year; Misses Billie Johnson and Almare Barry, both of Louisville, Kentucky Hall; Misses Ione Cunningham, Richmond and Georgia Mays of Louisville, Memorial Hall; and John Mudd of Springfield and Andrew [Bishop?] of Providence, Atwood Hall. The pries were donated by Mrs. R. B. Atwood, Dean A. J. Heartwell, and [President?] R. B. Atwood. Miss Josephine Haynes of Richmond received the Estill religious award donated by the Kentucky State College Alumni Association for outstanding religious activity on the campus for the past year. Miss Haynes also had the distinction of being the only graduate in the sixty-five to receive the honorary summa cum laude for superior academic achievement. Dean J. S. Estill, Kentucky professor retired in 1936 after 22 years of service at the college, was honored by the Alumni Association with a bound volume of letters from his hundreds of friends in the state. Dr. E. E. Underwood of Frankfort, college physician for the Kentucky State College, has been selected to make one of the speeches in the dedication ceremonies of the new Memorial Bridge over the Kentucky River at Frankfort on June 4. Dr. Underwood is the only Negro speaking on the program. Governor A. B. Chandler will deliver the main address.
Adopt Freshman Rule
Hampton, June 2-Establishing a president expected to be followed by CIAA schools. Hampton Institute has adopted the first year sports rule beginning September, 1938. This means that freshmen will be barred from varsity competition until they have completed their first year of studies.
Mrs. Mack "Wings Over Jordan " Speaker
Mrs. Essie D. Mack, President of the National Congress of the P. T. A. will speak over Columbia Broadcasting System at Cleveland, Ohio Sunday morning at 8:30, for "Wings over Jordan."
LEADING LADIES HOLD PLACES In The Leader's state-wide subscription campaign in which a Miss Louisville Leader is to be crowned in the Mountain, Blue Grass and West Kentucky sections, there is little change in the standings of the candidates of the respective candidates this week. In the Mountain Section Miss Virginia Lackey, Somerset, retains first place for the third week; Miss Emily Williard Smith, London is second; Miss Shirley Mae Love, Barboursville third; Miss Sweetie Simmons, Lynch fourth and Mrs. A. B. Patterson, Lynch fifth with Miss Willie Jean Pursiful a close. In the Blue Grass, Mrs. Georgia Smith, Burgin retained first place; Miss Julia Powell, Cynthiana, second; Miss Hattie B. Rice, Lexington is third: Miss Annette Hayden, Eminence, fourth and Miss Nora Hunter, Mt. Sterling, fifth. In West Kentucky, Mrs. Zelma Rogers, Paducah, retains first place, Miss Birdie Hallison, Paducah, second; Miss Annie Barbee, Franklin, third; Miss Betty C. Todd, Russellville, fourth and Mrs. Ina Vell, Pointdexter, Hopkinsville, fifth. The votes and standings of the candidates in the respective sections are given on page 7.
Central High in Commencement
Annual commencement exercises of Central High School are being held at the Memorial Auditorium Thursday night as The Leader goes to press. 104 are graduating and receiving diplomas. The theme of the 1938 commencement is "Vocational Efficiency." A complete story will be carried next week.
BACCALAUREATE SERVICE AT QUINN CHAPEL SUNDAY - More Than Forty Are Candidates For College Diplomas - Louisville Municipal College's seventh annual baccalaureate service will be held at Quinn Chapel AME Church, Chestnut Street between 9th and 10th, at 3:30 on Sunday afternoon, June 5. The forty-odd candidates for graduation, comprising the largest number to be graduated at a single commencement, will be addressed by Rev. Theodore S. Ledbetter, formerly college preacher at Tillotson College, Austin, Texas. and now pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church in Louisville. Rev. G. Horace Jenkins, pastor of Quinn Chapel, will also take part in the program and the college chorus will sing. The seventh annual commencement exercises, at Quinn Chapel, will take place on next Wednesday evening at eight o'clock. The speaker of the occasion will be Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson of Washington, D. C., well-known historian and author, editor of the Journal of Negro History. Degrees will be conferred [by?] President Raymond A. [Kent?] and announcement of awards[,?] scholarships, and honors will be made by Dean Lane. Other features of the commencement period include a faculty reception to the graduating class, parents, and friends, on the college campus, at five o'clock Saturday afternoon of this week; senior class day exercises in Steward Hall on Monday at five o'clock; the alumni reception to graduates, in Steward Hall, on Monday at eight o'clock, and the presentation of three one-act plays by the Municipal College players at eigrt o'clock Tuesday, at the Madison Junior High School auditorium.
BENSINGER'S USES LEADER IN SEASON'S ATTRACTIVE OFFERINGS The first of the large Louisville merchants to place an extended advertising contract with The Leader this season is the Bensinger Outfitting Company who starts the first of the ad copies to appear in succeeding issues of The Leader, this week on page 4. One of the largest furniture dealers in the South, Bensinger's has always enjoyed and appreciated a large colored trade, and beginning with this season Bensinger's is using The Leader as a medium through which its patrons and the public may know about the improved lines and the better bargains which the company is offering. In the advertisement on page 4 the Bensinger Outfitting Company is displaying the 1938 Frigidaire with silent meter-miser as a security to the health of the baby and the entire family, with guaranteed safe food protection--it saves more on current, food, ice and upkeep. Advertising is the life of a newspaper and concerns that give employment to colored people, contribute to their charitable institutions, appreciate their business, advertise in their newspapers and offer them the best of household furnishings at attractive prices as does the Bensinger Outfitting Co., headed by Charles W. Bensinger, deserve the support and patronage of colored people. Turn to page 4 and see what Bensinger's is offering in the 1938 Frigidaire and as you go to make your purchase tell the salesman that you read about it in The Louisville Leader.
MRS. MAE WALKER PERRY TO SPEAK Mrs. Mae Walker Perry, president of the Mme. C. J. Walker Mfg. Co., Indianapolis, Ind. will be the guest speaker at the Walker Beauty College Commencement Thursday, June 9 at Quinn Chapel. This will be Mrs. Perry's first public appearance in Louisville and the announcement of her coming is an agreeable surprise to friends and patrons of the college. She will be accompanied by F. B. Ranson, manager and attorney of the company, Mrs. Sarah Thomas, president; Miss Aggie Battle, assistant, Mrs. Cassie Bryant, sec'y and the Walker Beauty College graduates cordially invite the public to the commencement.
Is First Man Of Weight To Win Heavier Division Title
BARNEY ROSS
5 CENTS
NO. 31
More Than Forty Are Candidates For College lPERRY TO SPEAK TUBERCUlOSIS_ ESSAY CONTEST

AWARDS MADE IN COLLEGE TUBERCULOSIS ESSAY CONTEST Miss Laura E. Cruse of Kentucky State Industrial College won first prize, $10.00 in the tuberculosis essay contest conducted among students of Negro colleges of the state, by the Kentucky State Tuberculosis Association. The subject of the contest was: "Why I Should Know About Tuberculosis And What I Should Know." The contest of an educational nature, is to encourage Negro students, as future leaders of their communities to study the problems of health Education as it affects them and their race. The first three winning essays will be entered in the National contest where prizes of $50.00, $25.00 and five awards of honorable mention of $5.00 each are being offered. The essays were well written and covered to a large extent the problem of tuberculosis in the Negro. Judges in the contest found it hard to choose the winners. Other winners were Walter Shobe, second prize $5, George Edwards, both Kentucky State College, third prize, $3.00; Miss Lucy Lee Clements and Miss Lois Schaeffer of Louisville Municipal College won honorable mention of $1.00 each. Judges in the contest were: Dr. Robert Nurse, chairman of the Negro Health Week Committee; Dr. J. B. Bell, staff physician at Waverley Hills Tuberculosis Sanatorium and head of the Tuberculosis Clinic at 920 West Chestnut Street; Miss Luvenia Neal, health counselor, Madison Junior High School, and Miss Lorraine Robbins, secretary Negro Health Education, Louisville Tuberculosis Association.
Among the Leaders in the Mountain Section State-Wide Subscription Drive in Which a "Miss Louisville Leader" Will Be Crowned Miss Virginia Lackey Somerset, KY. Miss Sweetie Simmons Lynch, Ky. Miss Shirley Mae Love Barbourville, Ky. Mrs A. B. Patterson Lynch, Ky.
Young Glass College Grad
Edward K. Glass, son of Dr. and Mrs. J. G. Glass of Henderson, Ky., both from two of Kentucky's most prominent families, is among those who graduated from Tennessee A. and I. State College, Nashville, Tenn., Friday. Young Glass, who received a Bachelor of Science degree, is energetic and promising. He was one of the first young fellows to represent The Leader in West Kentucky. He started with 6 copies when he was 6 years old.
WHAT IS EDUCATION? ASKED BY DR. MCVEY AT COMMENCEMENT Frankfort, Ky., June 2--Speaking at the fifieth annual commencement of the [Kentucky?] State College at Frankfort[, Dr.?] Frank L. McVey, [president of?] the University of Kentucky, discussed "What is Education?" He summarized education as the power to discriminate which was built up through the growth of the individual by the process of experience. To the power to discriminate was added the taking of responsibilities, both civic and economic, as completing the educational process. Sixty-five graduates received their degrees from President R. B. Atwood of the Kentucky State College as the ceremonies were carried to every point in the well-filled Health building by loud speakers. A number of prizes and scholarships were presented during the ceremonies. Misses Leota Diggs of Detroit, Michigan, Katherine Lane of Lexington, Ovetta Taylor of Blue Diamond, and Susie Mae Wilson of Louisville received respectively the first prize J. H. Ingram medal, the A. J. Richards and Bettie H White awards for a second place tie and the third prize Mrs. W. W. Jones award for the annual college oratorical contest. Four girls and two young [men?] received prizes for the best kept rooms in the three dormitories for the year; Misses Billie Johnson and Almare Barry, both of Louisville, Kentucky Hall; Misses Ione Cunningham, Richmond and Georgia Mays of Louisville, Memorial Hall; and John Mudd of Springfield and Andrew [Bishop?] of Providence, Atwood Hall. The pries were donated by Mrs. R. B. Atwood, Dean A. J. Heartwell, and [President?] R. B. Atwood. Miss Josephine Haynes of Richmond received the Estill religious award donated by the Kentucky State College Alumni Association for outstanding religious activity on the campus for the past year. Miss Haynes also had the distinction of being the only graduate in the sixty-five to receive the honorary summa cum laude for superior academic achievement. Dean J. S. Estill, Kentucky professor retired in 1936 after 22 years of service at the college, was honored by the Alumni Association with a bound volume of letters from his hundreds of friends in the state. Dr. E. E. Underwood of Frankfort, college physician for the Kentucky State College, has been selected to make one of the speeches in the dedication ceremonies of the new Memorial Bridge over the Kentucky River at Frankfort on June 4. Dr. Underwood is the only Negro speaking on the program. Governor A. B. Chandler will deliver the main address.
Adopt Freshman Rule
Hampton, June 2-Establishing a president expected to be followed by CIAA schools. Hampton Institute has adopted the first year sports rule beginning September, 1938. This means that freshmen will be barred from varsity competition until they have completed their first year of studies.
Mrs. Mack "Wings Over Jordan " Speaker
Mrs. Essie D. Mack, President of the National Congress of the P. T. A. will speak over Columbia Broadcasting System at Cleveland, Ohio Sunday morning at 8:30, for "Wings over Jordan."
LEADING LADIES HOLD PLACES In The Leader's state-wide subscription campaign in which a Miss Louisville Leader is to be crowned in the Mountain, Blue Grass and West Kentucky sections, there is little change in the standings of the candidates of the respective candidates this week. In the Mountain Section Miss Virginia Lackey, Somerset, retains first place for the third week; Miss Emily Williard Smith, London is second; Miss Shirley Mae Love, Barboursville third; Miss Sweetie Simmons, Lynch fourth and Mrs. A. B. Patterson, Lynch fifth with Miss Willie Jean Pursiful a close. In the Blue Grass, Mrs. Georgia Smith, Burgin retained first place; Miss Julia Powell, Cynthiana, second; Miss Hattie B. Rice, Lexington is third: Miss Annette Hayden, Eminence, fourth and Miss Nora Hunter, Mt. Sterling, fifth. In West Kentucky, Mrs. Zelma Rogers, Paducah, retains first place, Miss Birdie Hallison, Paducah, second; Miss Annie Barbee, Franklin, third; Miss Betty C. Todd, Russellville, fourth and Mrs. Ina Vell, Pointdexter, Hopkinsville, fifth. The votes and standings of the candidates in the respective sections are given on page 7.
Central High in Commencement
Annual commencement exercises of Central High School are being held at the Memorial Auditorium Thursday night as The Leader goes to press. 104 are graduating and receiving diplomas. The theme of the 1938 commencement is "Vocational Efficiency." A complete story will be carried next week.
BACCALAUREATE SERVICE AT QUINN CHAPEL SUNDAY - More Than Forty Are Candidates For College Diplomas - Louisville Municipal College's seventh annual baccalaureate service will be held at Quinn Chapel AME Church, Chestnut Street between 9th and 10th, at 3:30 on Sunday afternoon, June 5. The forty-odd candidates for graduation, comprising the largest number to be graduated at a single commencement, will be addressed by Rev. Theodore S. Ledbetter, formerly college preacher at Tillotson College, Austin, Texas. and now pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church in Louisville. Rev. G. Horace Jenkins, pastor of Quinn Chapel, will also take part in the program and the college chorus will sing. The seventh annual commencement exercises, at Quinn Chapel, will take place on next Wednesday evening at eight o'clock. The speaker of the occasion will be Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson of Washington, D. C., well-known historian and author, editor of the Journal of Negro History. Degrees will be conferred [by?] President Raymond A. [Kent?] and announcement of awards[,?] scholarships, and honors will be made by Dean Lane. Other features of the commencement period include a faculty reception to the graduating class, parents, and friends, on the college campus, at five o'clock Saturday afternoon of this week; senior class day exercises in Steward Hall on Monday at five o'clock; the alumni reception to graduates, in Steward Hall, on Monday at eight o'clock, and the presentation of three one-act plays by the Municipal College players at eigrt o'clock Tuesday, at the Madison Junior High School auditorium.
BENSINGER'S USES LEADER IN SEASON'S ATTRACTIVE OFFERINGS The first of the large Louisville merchants to place an extended advertising contract with The Leader this season is the Bensinger Outfitting Company who starts the first of the ad copies to appear in succeeding issues of The Leader, this week on page 4. One of the largest furniture dealers in the South, Bensinger's has always enjoyed and appreciated a large colored trade, and beginning with this season Bensinger's is using The Leader as a medium through which its patrons and the public may know about the improved lines and the better bargains which the company is offering. In the advertisement on page 4 the Bensinger Outfitting Company is displaying the 1938 Frigidaire with silent meter-miser as a security to the health of the baby and the entire family, with guaranteed safe food protection--it saves more on current, food, ice and upkeep. Advertising is the life of a newspaper and concerns that give employment to colored people, contribute to their charitable institutions, appreciate their business, advertise in their newspapers and offer them the best of household furnishings at attractive prices as does the Bensinger Outfitting Co., headed by Charles W. Bensinger, deserve the support and patronage of colored people. Turn to page 4 and see what Bensinger's is offering in the 1938 Frigidaire and as you go to make your purchase tell the salesman that you read about it in The Louisville Leader.
MRS. MAE WALKER PERRY TO SPEAK Mrs. Mae Walker Perry, president of the Mme. C. J. Walker Mfg. Co., Indianapolis, Ind. will be the guest speaker at the Walker Beauty College Commencement Thursday, June 9 at Quinn Chapel. This will be Mrs. Perry's first public appearance in Louisville and the announcement of her coming is an agreeable surprise to friends and patrons of the college. She will be accompanied by F. B. Ranson, manager and attorney of the company, Mrs. Sarah Thomas, president; Miss Aggie Battle, assistant, Mrs. Cassie Bryant, sec'y and the Walker Beauty College graduates cordially invite the public to the commencement.
Is First Man Of Weight To Win Heavier Division Title
BARNEY ROSS
5 CENTS
NO. 31
More Than Forty Are Candidates For College lPERRY TO SPEAK TUBERCUlOSIS_ ESSAY CONTEST